1.) Edgar, Randal. "Students visit RI State House to Promote Safe Schools." Providence Journal 1 April 2011, 2nd Edition.
Edgar discusses the Third Eye Project which is established by Youth Crime Watch of America, which aims to equip students and teachers with knowledgable information and skills to provide and maintain a safe and well equipped environment in the school area. This groups main goal is to maintain a drug and alcohol fee environment, and wants to completely eradicate negative behaviors such as bullying, harassment, crime and violence. More than 300 students from across the state got together at the State House office in attempts to make their schools safer.
2.) Kurtz, Howard. Sullivan, Andrew. "The Bully Project Director Talks About Documenting Bullying in American Schools". Newsweek Article. The Daily Beast. 30 April 2011.
Lee Hirsch is the director of the documentary film The Bully Project. This film was brought into the public eye at the Tribeca Film Festival. The deciding factor that led to Hirsch's making of this film was the story about Rutger's University student Tyler Clementi, a victim of cyber bullying. This launched the issue of cyber bullying into the public eye. The Bully Project follows five victims and their families for an entire year, to get a clear image of the world a victim of bullying lives in. Hirsch's main goal for this film was to prove that these actions of the tormentors are not just "kids being kids" but kids that are committing serious crimes, that hold serious consequences. Hirsch says "I wanted to show bullying in an undeniable way. I wanted it to be in your face—this is what it is, this is what goes on, so it’s not just numbers and constructs and random ideas but it’s something real- real kids, real families."
Kelby Johnson, a sixteen year old from Oklahoma was tortured by students in her high school for coming out as lesbian. It escalated so severely that students hit her with their car. She admitted to dropping out of high school, but she continued to get her GED. Alex Hopkins a fourteen year old from Iowa, is punched, poked and stabbed with pencils on a daily basis on the bus rides to and from school. In Hirsch's documentary, he was allowed to film on the bus and catch these live incidents. After showing this footage to Hopkins parents, they then brought it into the school for a meeting. Without surprise, there was no solution and this only proves how school systems do not take this type of behavior seriously. Kurtz and Sullivan agree that it may be difficult for some school officials to pay anything but lip service to their bullying problems, but Hirsch encourages each person to do whatever they can.
3.) Pemberton C. Protecting children in care from the internet's wild side. Community Care [serial online]. October 13, 2011;(1880):20-21. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed November 28, 2011.
Camilla Pemberton reports about an incident that occurred with a 13 year old girl named Carly who thought she was meeting up with what appeared to be a 14 year old boy after school the next day, not a man in his late twenties. Carly was receiving messages such as "What school do you go to babe? Can we meet up? Your sexy." This is what is going on in todays world. The use of technology allows for people to hide their identity and be someone else, and the innocent person on the other end has no idea. The freedom that adolescents have with computers is a big contributing factor to this problem. Parents do not have a strong grasp on what is going on, because it is so easy for kids to sneak it, and hide what they really are doing on the web. Parents do not know that their young child is on social networking sites, and chatrooms with a bunch of strangers.
At the end of 2008 online filters which monitor internet usage were installed on a select group of computers. The software has been specially designed, to recognise an enormous range of words, images and phrases which could be cause for concern - from sexually explicit material, to harassment, racial discrimination and sexual grooming. This was done in hope of being able to control the amount of harm is out there on the internet.
4.) 18 February 2011. Acceptable Use Policies in a Web 2.0 & Mobile Era: A Guide for School Districts. ERIC Digest, 1-15.
The basis of this article primarily discusses the information and communications technologies (ICT) policies in schools. The two dimensions of this are to ensure that students are protected from pernicious material on the internet and enable students access to the extensive recourses on the internet. Some states rely on blocking the offensive websites that include the racial, pornography, and sexual material. Another stand to this issue that is discusses in this article, is when other school districts base their policy on the premise that children need to learn how to be responsible users and participation in such behavior cannot occur. The school personal believe that each student needs to be responsible for their own actions and should be held accountable for their own behavior.
A number of states have enacted the legislation pertaining to internet in schools mainly because of cyber bullying. Due to the fact that several instances include serious harm to children resulting from the negative affects of social networking, a number of state boards of education have enacted state requirements for school districts pertaining to bullying, hazing, and harassment as well. Each state is held accountable for their own rules pertaining to cyber bullying. While some states do not have rules at all for this matter. For example, New Hampshire.
5.) Aluede, O., Adeleke, F., Omoike, D., & Afen- Akpaida, J. (2008). A Review of the Extent, Nature, Characteristics and Effects of Bullying Behaviour in Schools. Journal Of Instructional Psychology, 35(2), 151-158.
This article bases its focus on the definition of bullying itself and the concept of bullying. From the psychological perspective, this article says bullying is a subset of aggressive behaviors, but intentionally tries to hurt the recipient. In schools, the learners are the victims. Bullies most commonly target others who are different then them and seek to exploit those differences. The choose victims are unlikely to retaliate. Whatever it is specifically that the victim is being bullied for, the victim needs to remember the tormentor is only doing this because of problems that they have with themselves.
The article proceeds to talk about to what extent bullying will go to. Bullying is something that occurs world wide, in every type of place. Small schools, large schools, single-sex, co-education schools and traditional ones. Verbal teasing is the most painful form and has the longest impact on the victim. In a case study, 4th-8th graders, 15 percent of the respondents reported being severely distressed by bullying. 22 percent reported academic difficulties because of mistreatment by peers. In all, approximately 282,000 students are physically attacked in secondary schools every month. This is a major epidemic because this naturally causes students to become afraid and insecure to go to school. Most commonly students avoid school altogether because they feel they are not strong enough to go to school.
Edgar discusses the Third Eye Project which is established by Youth Crime Watch of America, which aims to equip students and teachers with knowledgable information and skills to provide and maintain a safe and well equipped environment in the school area. This groups main goal is to maintain a drug and alcohol fee environment, and wants to completely eradicate negative behaviors such as bullying, harassment, crime and violence. More than 300 students from across the state got together at the State House office in attempts to make their schools safer.
2.) Kurtz, Howard. Sullivan, Andrew. "The Bully Project Director Talks About Documenting Bullying in American Schools". Newsweek Article. The Daily Beast. 30 April 2011.
Lee Hirsch is the director of the documentary film The Bully Project. This film was brought into the public eye at the Tribeca Film Festival. The deciding factor that led to Hirsch's making of this film was the story about Rutger's University student Tyler Clementi, a victim of cyber bullying. This launched the issue of cyber bullying into the public eye. The Bully Project follows five victims and their families for an entire year, to get a clear image of the world a victim of bullying lives in. Hirsch's main goal for this film was to prove that these actions of the tormentors are not just "kids being kids" but kids that are committing serious crimes, that hold serious consequences. Hirsch says "I wanted to show bullying in an undeniable way. I wanted it to be in your face—this is what it is, this is what goes on, so it’s not just numbers and constructs and random ideas but it’s something real- real kids, real families."
Kelby Johnson, a sixteen year old from Oklahoma was tortured by students in her high school for coming out as lesbian. It escalated so severely that students hit her with their car. She admitted to dropping out of high school, but she continued to get her GED. Alex Hopkins a fourteen year old from Iowa, is punched, poked and stabbed with pencils on a daily basis on the bus rides to and from school. In Hirsch's documentary, he was allowed to film on the bus and catch these live incidents. After showing this footage to Hopkins parents, they then brought it into the school for a meeting. Without surprise, there was no solution and this only proves how school systems do not take this type of behavior seriously. Kurtz and Sullivan agree that it may be difficult for some school officials to pay anything but lip service to their bullying problems, but Hirsch encourages each person to do whatever they can.
3.) Pemberton C. Protecting children in care from the internet's wild side. Community Care [serial online]. October 13, 2011;(1880):20-21. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed November 28, 2011.
Camilla Pemberton reports about an incident that occurred with a 13 year old girl named Carly who thought she was meeting up with what appeared to be a 14 year old boy after school the next day, not a man in his late twenties. Carly was receiving messages such as "What school do you go to babe? Can we meet up? Your sexy." This is what is going on in todays world. The use of technology allows for people to hide their identity and be someone else, and the innocent person on the other end has no idea. The freedom that adolescents have with computers is a big contributing factor to this problem. Parents do not have a strong grasp on what is going on, because it is so easy for kids to sneak it, and hide what they really are doing on the web. Parents do not know that their young child is on social networking sites, and chatrooms with a bunch of strangers.
At the end of 2008 online filters which monitor internet usage were installed on a select group of computers. The software has been specially designed, to recognise an enormous range of words, images and phrases which could be cause for concern - from sexually explicit material, to harassment, racial discrimination and sexual grooming. This was done in hope of being able to control the amount of harm is out there on the internet.
4.) 18 February 2011. Acceptable Use Policies in a Web 2.0 & Mobile Era: A Guide for School Districts. ERIC Digest, 1-15.
The basis of this article primarily discusses the information and communications technologies (ICT) policies in schools. The two dimensions of this are to ensure that students are protected from pernicious material on the internet and enable students access to the extensive recourses on the internet. Some states rely on blocking the offensive websites that include the racial, pornography, and sexual material. Another stand to this issue that is discusses in this article, is when other school districts base their policy on the premise that children need to learn how to be responsible users and participation in such behavior cannot occur. The school personal believe that each student needs to be responsible for their own actions and should be held accountable for their own behavior.
A number of states have enacted the legislation pertaining to internet in schools mainly because of cyber bullying. Due to the fact that several instances include serious harm to children resulting from the negative affects of social networking, a number of state boards of education have enacted state requirements for school districts pertaining to bullying, hazing, and harassment as well. Each state is held accountable for their own rules pertaining to cyber bullying. While some states do not have rules at all for this matter. For example, New Hampshire.
5.) Aluede, O., Adeleke, F., Omoike, D., & Afen- Akpaida, J. (2008). A Review of the Extent, Nature, Characteristics and Effects of Bullying Behaviour in Schools. Journal Of Instructional Psychology, 35(2), 151-158.
This article bases its focus on the definition of bullying itself and the concept of bullying. From the psychological perspective, this article says bullying is a subset of aggressive behaviors, but intentionally tries to hurt the recipient. In schools, the learners are the victims. Bullies most commonly target others who are different then them and seek to exploit those differences. The choose victims are unlikely to retaliate. Whatever it is specifically that the victim is being bullied for, the victim needs to remember the tormentor is only doing this because of problems that they have with themselves.
The article proceeds to talk about to what extent bullying will go to. Bullying is something that occurs world wide, in every type of place. Small schools, large schools, single-sex, co-education schools and traditional ones. Verbal teasing is the most painful form and has the longest impact on the victim. In a case study, 4th-8th graders, 15 percent of the respondents reported being severely distressed by bullying. 22 percent reported academic difficulties because of mistreatment by peers. In all, approximately 282,000 students are physically attacked in secondary schools every month. This is a major epidemic because this naturally causes students to become afraid and insecure to go to school. Most commonly students avoid school altogether because they feel they are not strong enough to go to school.